raid 0 data recovery?
- by Fred
HI All,
I have two identical seagate 7200.9 500Gb drives confiured as a RAID 0 spanned disk in windows.
One of the drives has lost power and wont spin up at all.
I know this normally means death for the data on both drives but i have a cunning plan..
DISK 1 - NO POWER RAID 0 DISK
DISK 2 - FULLY FUNCTIONAL RAID 0 DISK
DISK 3 - FULLY FUNCTIONAL SPARE DISK
Copy the working drive (disk 2) data to a third 500GB DISK (disk 3), remove the logic board from the working disk (disk 2) and replace it with the non working logic board on the broken drive (disk 1) , then hopefully recreate the RAID 0 with disk 1 and disk 3, just long enough to get the data off it.
Hope this makes sense, here are my questions:
Windows disk manager atm recognises disk 2 but wont let me access it in anyway, therefore copying the data off it (or getting a disk image) cant be done in windows.
Does anyone know of any software (in linux or self booting) that would allow me to access this disk?
Anyone know of any software that will recreate the spanned drive off two disk images
Am i missing any key information that means i definitely shouldn't even bother starting this, i know its a long shot anyway but its worth a try unless i definitely cant do it.
The irritating thing is that i am sure its a logic board failure on disk 1 as it simply wont power up at all, suddenly no signs of life, so i am sure the data is intact!
Any help would be really appreciated!
Thanks
